The Women’s Wisdom/Spiritual Teachings

For many years I have known that there is a difference between the men and women’s spiritual teachings.   Unfortunately many of the women’s spiritual teachings and initiations have been forgotten or lost.  My woman friend studied with two male elders of two different cultures and traditions, the Quechua high in the Andes and the Kahuna of Hawaii.   Interestingly enough they both said that they know that there are women’s spiritual teachings but that of course neither of them knew anything about them.  They also both shared with her that in their traditions, women were allowed to receive the men’s teachings but men were not allowed to receive the women’s teachings.  The women’s teachings were done in secrecy – in part  That is also why some of the teachings have been lost or forgotten.  The women’s teachings were done only with women because they involved the specific  teachings connected to women’s monthly menstrual (moon time ) cycles – the sacred blood mystery.  At the same time, the teachings and initiations can never be completely lost or forgotten because they are written in the DNA of women’s cells.  It is time for us to remember and to share.

  The loss or forgetting of the women’s spiritual teachings  and our willingness to just go in ignorance along with the men’s teachings and initiations shows just how disconnected we are from the divine feminine.  The divine feminine is embodied by Mother Earth and therefore it is no surprise that in the same ignorance we are  not honouring Mother Earth, that we pollute and destroy her body.  It is no surprise that in ignorance, we pollute and destroy our own physical bodies and we see this in the epidemic of cancer, heart disease etc. etc.  Destroying the Earth and our own physical bodies as representatives of Mother Earth are an obvious result when women are not passing down to the next generations, the women’s spiritual teachings and initiations.    These are those teachings and initiations that call forward the divine feminine in balance. 

 Just as there are certain things that only men can do, there are certain roles that only women can play in the spiritual realms and on the material plane.  Women are uniquely gifted to co-create children, give birth and be Mothers.  The 13 Original Clan Mothers by Jamie Sams outlines some of the ancient teachings and women’s medicine.   In her book, Jamie Sams says that her first teacher in Mexico, a man, Joaquin Muriel Espinosa, took her to two Kiowa Grandmothers, Grandmother Cisi and Grandmother Berta realizing that she needed to learn Women’s Medicine instead of the Male Warrior Way.  What a wonderful gift to Jamie that her male teacher was able to recognize and honour that there is a vast difference between the divine feminine principle and the divine masculine principle as well a vast difference between the women’s teachings  and the men’s.  For more details please see The 13 Original Clan Mothers).

The women’s teachings are of course wider and broader than those that any one person can cover  as they come from many traditions and at the same time possess a universal truth that speaks to the heart of a woman that transcend time, space and location.   What as women  – we do know regarding the women’s spiritual teachings  must be passed on to every woman, mother, daughter, sister, friend who feels the yearning to know and embody her full divine feminine and to have the knowledge of women’s medicine (which is multidimensional and multi-facetted).  It is the salve for many women whose souls are starving for this connection.    Culturally we live in a world where for so long women’s traditions, medicines and power has been scorned, denied, looked down upon, been feared.  It  is now time for every woman who chooses to reconnect with the divine feminine in herself, to be proud and to honour that which is an inherent gift and that is so needed in a world dominated by linear, intellectual thinking.  Each woman must follow her heart and intuition and see where they lead her and when there listening to various teachings to see what resonates with her.    Receive the teachings of men and women but have the knowledge and awareness of what is the difference.  Make choices about the spiritual initiations you will do and do them with knowledge,   not from a place of ignorance or blindly following a shaman, medicine man or spiritual teacher who has no knowledge themselves of the difference in teachings for men and women.   At the same time, we as women should not expect men to have knowledge of the women’s teachings at this time.  We as women are still in the process of remembering and reviving them. 

I like the Grandmothers and like Jamie Sams feel concerned about the imbalance that is further exacerbated in women when we  learning the men’s teachings and go through the  men’s initations.  In particular any ceremonies where hallucinatory states are induced either by deprivation of food and water or plants can in fact potentially damage a woman’s energetic fields because woman are different than men, physiologically, mentally ( read studies on how the brain differs in the sexes).  Many spiritual teachers have no real knowledge or awareness of why and how the differences between  men and women affect the specific exercises, ceremonies and rituals.  The spiritual teachings and initiations are meant to have each soul connect more deeply to the Earth and Spirit, not to cause damage.   It is now time for the medicine women, sha-women and spiritual warrioress-es to share the ancient knowledge we have with our Sisters. 

 I am now sharing the teaching and spiritual  initiations for women that I am aware of.  Just as in the work that I do with children, youth, executives and CEOs  in the area of spirituality- I  am encouraging each and every woman to claim her power especially her spiritual wisdom including psyhic, intuitive and healing abilities.   We live in a time where it is important that we have knowledge of the traditions and that we have the freedom to co-create with Spirit and the Earth, the rituals and ceremonies that resonate with the place where we find ourselves, in the consciousness we find ourselves in and with the consciousness of our soul tribe.    The teachings and initiations more than anything else help a woman to come back to herself, to her soul, to her being and to her reason for being.   They help a woman to come home, home to herself and to Spirit and to Mother Earth.    I invite you to become an embodiment of the women’s wisdom/spiritual teachings, the teachings that you know and that already reside in your heart and the cells of your body, waiting to be honoured and reawakened.